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Environment

 Watery Situation

Floods in Bangladesh have claimed the lives of more than

Publication Date: 
14/11/2000
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Floods
Wildlife

 LOOMING THREAT

There are at least

Publication Date: 
30/10/2000
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Glaciers, Floods, Research, Nepal
Natural Disasters

 Bengal floods kills 893

at least 893 people have died and 18 million rendered homeless in flood-ravaged West Bengal. Official reports indicated that the death toll might reach 1000. The state chief minister has

Publication Date: 
30/10/2000
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Natural Disasters, Floods, West Bengal
Environment

 Rising like the Phoenix

After suffering a spate of floods villagers regain environmental and economic vitality

Publication Date: 
29/09/2000
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Land Use, Common Property Resources, Organic Farming, Watershed Development, Floods, Disaster Management, Women, Public Participation, NGO, Rajasthan, Jaipur (D), Sustainable Development
Mining

 Welcome to cyber city

Computers cannot prevent floods a lesson that the Internet savvy chief minister of Andhra Pradesh is learning the hard way

Publication Date: 
29/09/2000
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Land Encroachments, Hussain Sagar, Floods, Flood Control, Disaster Management, Governance, Andhra Pradesh
Environment

 Now it is floods

It is time people established their relationship with water once again

Publication Date: 
29/09/2000
Anil Agarwal
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Water Harvesting, Floods, Urban Habitat, Urbanisation, Urban Management, Hydrology, Governance, CSE, Anil Agarwal, India, Rainfall
India

 INDUNDATED by excuses

the floods have once again ravaged Bihar. Claims made by the government that all precautionary measures were taken, embankment and anti-erosion work completed in time and that the floods would not be allowed to occur

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
Dinesh Kumar Mishra
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India

 sponsored blight?

Another monsoon. The season of suffering in India s flood plains. And of blaming upstream people for floods. Is there an end to this

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
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Indus, Health Effects, Waterborne diseases, Natural Disasters, Floods, Flood Control, Disaster Management, Governance, Politics
India

 POLITICS OF BLAME

Some facts about floods in the Indo Gangetic plains

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
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Floods
Agriculture

 KILLING FLOODS

At least 50 people were killed and hundreds were rendered homeless in Bhutan due to flash floods and mudslides caused by fierce rains. Lynpo Khandu Wangchuk, the minister for trade, said that

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
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